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secretary tried to build senate support amid sexual assault allegations. as republicans on capitol hill walk a tight rope handling trump's controversial nominees it's a great day of momentum for the trump administration. less than 24 hours after that show of self confidence, matt gaetz pulling the plug on his bid to be attorney general. mr. president, are you reconsidering the nomination of matt gaetz? no. but trump's support for gaetz ended after getting reports at least four senate republicans couldn't get past a house ethics investigation into claims gates had multiple sexual encounters with a minor, which he denies. >> i know enough people that were hell no. >> trump quickly nominating former florida attorney general pam bondi to lead the doj as his transition team scrambles to secure gop support for other cabinet hopefuls. >> the matter was fully investigated, and i was completely cleared. >> pentagon pick pete hegseth on the hill with vice president

elect jd vance dealing with a police report. a woman accused him of sexual assault in 2017. >> he's going to have to answer those questions with regard to anything that's in his record. >> texas is not alone. some republicans also non-committal about health and human services nominee. robert kennedy jr.. >> we've got a process. he's got to go through the process and tulsi gabbard shot to lead national intelligence. >> also in question after supporting syria's dictator and blaming nato for russia's invasion of ukraine. >> this is not a place for a russian, iranian syrian, chinese sympathizer. >> here with me today, new york times journalist and the interview podcast host lulu garcia-navarro reihan salam, president of the manhattan institute and national review contributing editor politics and policy contributor at bloomberg. nia-malika henderson and conservative pollster and new york times opinion writer kristen soltis anderson. welcome back everyone. kristen, let's start with the gaetz

rejection by senate republicans. how big a setback for donald trump? >> i think i mentioned on the show last week that this was donald trump was a raptor testing the fences. he has discovered that they are electrified, that there are some places that senate republicans simply will not go. i think that gates was always going to be the hardest sell. i am not surprised to see him have to withdraw. i do think that the republican senators want to get to yes on everybody else, and i think that includes pete hegseth. >> well, we'll get to that in a moment. but i do want to talk about the message here. trump was riding high after the election, picking cabinet nominees at a record pace, telling the senate to go on recess and give his choices a pass. but now gates appears to be the earliest failed cabinet pick in modern history. nia, how big a reality check for donald trump? >> well, listen, i think donald trump thought he was going to be able to muscle matt gaetz through. if you think about it this is his second defeat in the face of this republican senate. he really wanted rick

scott to be the majority leader. they picked john thune. so now with with matt gaetz, they've sort of said no thank you to donald trump. he was threatening a lot of these folks with primary challenges that were going to be backed by elon musk. and they still turned turned their backs on what what matt gaetz was going to be and and i think he sort of has misread or overread the mandate overread his ability to power through this republican congress in the senate. i want to pick up on that. >> reihan with you because i think there was this sense trump certainly never said it explicitly, but there was this sense that he was just going to come into town and sweep away a lot of the traditional guardrails, like the senate like some of the other constraints on a president and in this very first test, the guardrails held. >> well, i have to say, there's some reporting which suggests that this choice of gates happened pretty improvisationally shall we say,

while they were all gathered together on the plane and susie wiles was back in the back of the plane, not hearing about it. right his chief of staff, his designated chief of staff. and similarly, you know, in a conversation with maggie haberman, an inside source in trump world seemed to suggest that were gates to go away, it would be all right. and you'd go back to the drawing board. some of us already believed that some of this is improvizational. some of this is testing the guardrails. number one. number two, some of us also believed that the genius of the framers is that guess what senators are elected to six year terms. senators are institution and their prerogatives and so the idea that he was going to somehow get all of these republican senators, all the senators period, to subordinate themselves to him, it was always a bit of a fanciful sense. i think, that this was very, very predictable. >> lulu, i mean, what i think is this everyone sort of touting that the guardrails held it was four senators who were the guardrails in this

particular case that didn't give the matt gaetz the vote. that's a very, very small group of people know what the number is because it wasn't a vote. >> it wasn't a vote. >> but we knew there were at least 30 who raised concerns. right. and reporting, i mean, regardless, the point is he was trying to steamroll the senate. >> and the senate said no yeah, but he was trying to steamroll the senate with an absolutely unfit. that was the point. no, no. >> but and and more reporting came out throughout this process that really put him in a difficult position. i have to say, had there not been more evidence that that he had had contact with that 17 year old, that he was grooming high school students i think it would have been a different story at the end of the day. look what happened in the house. they actually still haven't released that report on him. they were trying to protect him. and so i don't know, i don't see this as some sort of like celebration of of the system working. >> lulu, as we said in the setup piece, some of trump's other picks that we named also

face headwinds. do you think that other nominees will be rejected or you know, just to do it delicately? pull themselves out? and if so, who do you think is >> i think tulsi gabbard is probably going to be in the most jeopardy. >> she's the choice for director of national intelligence she's the choice for director of national intelligence. >> and i think the process isn't just we haven't even gotten to the place where they're actually on the hill yet and testifying. what's happening now is the media is digging into all these people. and what's happening now is that people are really, you know focusing on them. and so i actually think the more that's going to come out, the harder that it's going to be for some of these people. but again, i've been on the record as saying from the beginning that i thought, you know they're all going to get through. so you know, this is take my word for it. >> well, let me ask you reihan, do you think other trump nominees will go down? >> i think it's entirely possible that it will happen my guess, as kristen was saying, is that republican senators are going to generally speaking, want his nominees to get through but, you know, think

back to bill clinton when he was trying to he was very important to him to have a female attorney general, the first female attorney general. he went through. zoe baird, then kimba wood then finally janet reno, someone that he did not know at all. these things happen. what's happening now is that the cycle is much faster. the media frenzy is much more. and when donald trump does something, he's doing things that other presidents have done but it's more lurid, it's more crazy it's more of a spectacle that normally would push back to the extent to say that it is not unusual for presidents to lose some picks. >> george h.w. bush lost john tower. the difference is that trump seemed to think after his reelection that he was going to come into town and remake the rules, and he didn't. one other thing that people have noticed about trump's picks, how many come from television pete hegseth dr. oz tulsi gabbard sean duffy. mike huckabee? kristen, what do particular say about his priorities? >> well, people are always looking for someone who they are comfortable with. and

donald trump is very comfortable with people he has seen on television he also prioritizes showmanship. he prioritizes messaging. and i think he thinks by choosing people who he enjoys watching on television, that that will put a good face on his administration and that on the policy stuff that can all get sorted out by him. just saying, no, i want this, get it done. and as long as somebody is a good face on television, it will make his agenda work. >> yeah. i mean, he's he's very big on charisma. he's very big on looking the part whether or not that plays with these republican senators who were appointed to six year terms, they have been there before donald trump. they're going to be there long after donald trump. so i think some of these folks you mentioned, tulsi gabbard, i think somebody like pete hegseth also might have an issue because what trump likes isn't necessarily fitting with some of the qualifications that these senators are looking for. and it's not enough for them to be able to say, well, donald trump won the election. he's got all chambers, and we're

just going to rubber stamp his his people. >> i'm asking a somewhat different question, which is what does do these tv hosts? and look, some of them were huckabee was the governor of arkansas. but but what does his attraction to these tv hosts say about trump? >> what they what it says is that he is interested in how this plays to the general public. he wants to dominate the media narrative. he is fascinated by television. he wants these people to go out and be his spokesperson. and really, he thinks that that is why he won the election, that he was able to kind of dominate the new media game, that he was really able to penetrate parts of the country that were not penetrated before and i think that he believes that these people are going to be able to do that and again, he's planning on radically remaking government. and so he's going to need spokespeople to sell that to the american people. so maybe he's right in choosing

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lowering the threshold for using nukes. and in a clear escalation, russia fired a ballistic missile with several warheads into eastern ukraine. it's the first time a missile of that kind has been used in the war. kristen is president biden's last minute shift on ukraine smart? >> i mean, he's certainly saying, let her rip here at the end. i think he assumes that donald trump will come in and be less favorable to the ukrainian cause. and so he's saying do whatever you've got to, to make as much progress as you can. now before i'm gone. i do think that one of the criticisms of him was that they were asking ukraine to be too restrained early on, when maybe ukraine had a chance of putting this to bed when russia was a little bit on the ropes. so it seems to me that he's really just trying to get as much out of his system before trump comes into office. >> biden was reportedly worried letting ukraine use american weapons to strike inside russia risked escalation. even some said world war iii. but given trump's lack of support for ukraine president biden

apparently wanted to leave kyiv in the strongest position for a negotiated settlement. lulu even some of biden's supporters say, yeah, the policy switch. we understand it, but it's way too little, way too late. >> yeah, it's an act of desperation. on his way out and i don't know that it's going to have the intended effect as kristen points out of actually leaving ukraine in a stronger position. putin's strategy has always been one of a waiting game of waiting out the american system of democracy to have to leech support for ukraine and or have a different administration come in. so, i mean, he only has a couple of months before i think things will be much more favorable to him. >> but it seems like what biden is saying is this is going to end up in a negotiated settlement. and i want ukraine to be in the strongest position. it can, for instance, to keep its territory inside russia in kursk so they have something to give back and

forth. >> reihan shaking his head. >> well, look you will thank you for that. you will recall chris, that on this program i defended the biden administration's previous position. they made a compelling case for a few different reasons. one, when you're looking at these atacms in order to use them effectively, you would actually need u.s. aid in targeting the missiles. otherwise you're using, you know, essentially a luxury automobile to do something that it's not really designed to do. so this is incredibly wasteful. we do not have many of these atacms. the ukrainians do not have many of them. so this is a serious serious strategic error in my judgment. do i think that the ukrainians should we have unleashed them earlier on, maybe we could debate that. but when biden and lloyd austin made the case recently that we are not going to let them use atacms on russian soil, i think that was very sensible. now, this is very reckless last minute stuff that i don't think is actually going to be especially helpful to ukraine. >> then there's putin's response lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons.

here is the state department's response. >> i am unfortunately not surprised by the comments the kremlin has made around the publication of this new, revised nuclear doctrine. we will continue to call on russia to stop bellicose and irresponsible rhetoric. >> nia, how seriously should the u.s. and the west take putin's nuclear threat? >> listen, i think you have to take putin, given his behavior so far vis a vis ukraine. i think you have to take what he says seriously. this is obviously in response to what ukraine has done, backed by backed by the u.s., the weapons and so in some ways, this was a bit of a blunder because it now has put ukraine maybe in a more perilous position. that's even going to be more perilous, right? once donald trump takes office. you saw him in that debate when asked about what does he want to see the outcome in terms of of this war? and he just says he wants it to be

over? >> he refused to say, i want ukraine to win. exactly reihan. putin has rattled the nuclear saber before but this was very chilling. this was an intermediate range ballistic missile with multiple warheads. that was fully they were conventional, but they were fully capable of being nuclear warheads instead of conventional warheads how much should we make of this talk about a nuclear threat? >> we should be very disturbed by it. and this was the background behind why the biden administration earlier on was saying let's be restrained in the use of these weapons on russian soil. this is deadly serious. i think you hear a lot of people, a lot of smart, thoughtful people i agree with on a lot of things who said russia is a paper tiger? don't take it seriously. my view is that this is a very combustible global situation. number one. number two, one thing that really concerns me is that i think that part of the background here, why did the biden administration not do this before is because they were concerned about what happens to global markets, including global oil markets. and it almost seems as though,

hey, we're not going to worry about that now. we're going to let putin engage in this incredible escalatory rhetoric and really rattle global markets now that he's out the door. that to me does not seem very presidential. and very statesman like. >> and then donald trump takes office in january and he talked during the campaign he could end this war in 24 hours. i'm not going to ask you about the 24 hour part of it, kristen, but how does this end? >> i think this ends with donald trump putting pressure on our allies in ukraine to accept a deal that involves them ceding some territory. i think that's the way this is going to go. i think that he's going to say the american people do not have as much appetite for continuing to send you assistance. and so take a good deal don't make this stretch out and wind up with a worse deal. of course, the question is what's a good deal? >> nia and you know one of the concerns and it seems at this point, given the balance of power, is that a deal that would have to be made particularly if trump is basically pulling the rug out from under zelenskyy and the ukrainians, is that russia gets

to keep some of the territory that it has gained during this almost three year war. >> that's right. you you embolden russia they essentially win. you know they invaded a sovereign country. and and if they come away with parts of that country, what more might they do going forward, particularly with a weakened west, particularly with the donald trump, who is essentially saying we're not going to come to the defense of a country like ukraine. >> so if that were to happen, lulu, that the war is negotiated, we've only got a couple of seconds here. you russia gets to keep some of its gains what's the message to putin? >> the message to putin. that's always been the fear. the message to putin is, hey, we can't you know, we're not going to protect you. take what you want. it's all it's all yours. and i think it leaves russia in a much stronger position. >> one standoff. that's sure to get heated over the next four years. trump versus the news media. so how should

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bad, let's go talk to him. it does feel like it hits an odd note, but i think that it makes sense to engage with the person who is going to be the president of the united states i want to get to that point. >> does it matter why they went down to mar-a-lago, whether it was just to open communications with the new president of the united states or whether it was, as some reports have it, to try to ward off retribution and legal harassment. >> not really. and listen, it probably was all of the above. they want to do their jobs better on the air. they want to be more informed about what this president is going to do. maybe they want to try to sway what this president is thinking in terms of his treatment of the press. maybe it's specifically them about how he might treat them you know, there was obviously bipartisan outrage. and this is a larger question about how we cover donald trump this time. you know, i've been covering him since 2015. i think most of us have. there was a way and an approach to him in the first administration. a lot of it was

based on outrage and covering every tweet endlessly. >> we're going to get into more of that, and we'll see what the approach is this time. >> but it certainly has to be different, i think, going forward. >> that raises the question will trump go after reporters and their corporate bosses with investigations, challenges to license renewals and big mergers? here was former trump adviser steve bannon just out of prison. >> ari melber on all you hosts. >> preserve your documents. all of it. you better be worried. you better lawyer up better call mom and dad tonight. hey, mom and dad. you know, a good lawyer. lawyer up well, he knows something about lawyering up. >> lulu will trump try to punish the media? i'm not talking about rhetorical stuff. no, i know about fake media. i'm talking about about going after reporters. he talked about killing the act that would protect us from having to reveal our sources. going after corporate mergers, license renewals, will he try to punish

the media? >> i mean, that's the fear. and it's the flip side of what we were talking about earlier with media and owning the message. how do you own the message? well you have to also kind of destroy the other part of it. the fact based media that might act as a counterweight to that. and so, you know, i think that the famous saying we're not at war, we're at work, which marty baron said, the washington post during the first trump administration to talk about what the attitude of the fact based media should be in the trump administration, i think is something that they're adopting this time i also think that it's clear that donald trump is at war with the fact based media at war, i think so. i mean i think all those comments that he said. i mean he's he's um, he's basically saying a statement of intent. i mean, are we not going to take donald trump seriously after all this time? i mean, i just don't understand, like we take him seriously with everything else. and so i, you know, i don't know why we wouldn't this time again, reihan, i want

to be clear here. >> i'm not talking about him saying bad things about us. i'm talking about him taking reporters to court, trying to block our bosses. the people that own these companies from conducting mergers or renewing licenses. i mean really using the power of the government is the concern about trump trying to curb a free press legitimate or overwrought well, i think that people are certainly allowed to be concerned about anything they'd like to be concerned about. >> i think the danger. i think the danger that donald trump faces is getting a thermostatic reaction that is saying things that are going to elicit a really strong civil society response and a response from people that he depends on. if he seems to be too extreme that has always been the danger for donald trump that he faces. and i think that the net effect of all of this talk is really going to be that you're going to really enrich and embolden the media. during the first trump presidency, this was an

incredible time for legacy incumbent media organizations, many of them that have really deep internal divides, really deep internal problems. the money was rushing in. the pride was there, the energy and excitement and enthusiasm was there. i think you may well see that again. i also see some course correction. i see some of these institutions that are thinking a lot about how they torched their credibility and lost the faith of a lot of news consumers. >> i want to pick up on that part of it, because there is an issue, as nia and reihan have mentioned, reporters are struggling with now trump is clearly going to push the envelope, try to expand presidential powers. but democratic senator john fetterman warned journalists not to overreact to every provocation it's still not even not even thanksgiving yet. >> and if we're having meltdowns, you know, every tweet or every appointment or all those things i mean, it's going to be four years. >> kristen, how would you advise the media to cover

donald trump? >> i would advise the media to focus on the facts report. the facts report what is rather than try to tell people how they should feel or what should be i think that's where the media has gotten into problems over the last couple of years. is by telling people, are you not outraged? are you not upset about this thing donald trump did? and a lot of americans would say, the media, i just i find this we've got to hurry up here. >> i know, but i just find this idea of like the media there is no the media anymore when you're talking about that, you're saying you're trying to describe what is called legacy media. >> and you know, other things. i mean, i just don't think that there's one media anymore. we are now in a disaggregated media. and so there is no just one narrative. >> that's certainly true. up next, a new trend for thanksgiving, which may have you rethinking your plans, especially if you hope to stay out of the kitchen. plus, a taste of first class. the new not so fancy food option for those spending big bucks to fly

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of champagne. and now fast food. as part of the first class experience. delta airlines announced it's teaming up with shake shack to serve cheeseburgers to first class passengers on long distance domestic flights. the burgers will not be grilled in flight. no, they'll be cooked on the ground, then reheated on board. they'll come with potato chips, caesar salad and a brownie. sorry, no crinkle cut fries. kristen. yay! or nay on fast food in first class. >> i think this sounds fantastic. i would 100% choose this if i was sitting in first class over the reheated molten hot lava ziti in a nuclear hot little ceramic dish. uh, sign me up for this. >> back in the 90s, united for a while was serving mcdonald's happy meals on some of its flights. lulu. shake shack is definitely an upgrade over happy meals. >> this is gross. >> come on. this is gross. >> this is like nothing reheated on a plane is good.

not even shake shack. and i just feel like if i paid all that money for first class, you'd better be giving me some nuclear ziti as opposed to some shake shack. that's like 5.99. >> i don't know if that's my choice i think i'll go with shake shack over nuclear ziti. i was hoping for a third option. while you can't supersize your in-flight burger, here's something you can think big about. retailers say sales of giant nine foot by nine foot alaskan king beds are climbing well, they've long been popular with pro-athletes. they're now being advertised as a more comfortable way for normal sized people to sleep. we did the math check as two full sized beds, the alaskan king bed can fit the average starting lineup of an nba team. lulu are you yay or nay on super sized beds? >> well, first of all, how are you going to get the sheetz? i mean, it just feels like it's very expensive to put everything on the sheetz. >> but you don't think you're going to have sheetz alaskan sheetz for

think they're going to be hard and very expensive. >> but i'm a yay because actually, i do think it's nice to like, all cuddle up and, you know be on a bed the size of an island, you know, like, why do you even have to leave your bed anymore? why do you even have to leave your room? you can just sort of like, eat igloo over it the whole thing just may be too much information, but lorraine and i are finally graduating from a queen size bed to just a regular king size bed. >> wow. my choice, not hers. reihan where are you on the alaskan king you know i'm pro because my wife is always accused me of being a blanket hog. >> and you know, she was besmirching my blanket reputation and finally we got a much bigger bed. and now we have separate duvets under one big shared coverlet. and so i can get as much blanket as i want. she gets as much blanket as she wants. and there's amity in this alarm household. >> oh boy. too much information. we're all sharing finally, as many of us celebrate thanksgiving this week, you may be expected to contribute a little more than usual if you're not hosting. a

new survey finds people are opting for potluck style dinners this year because of high food prices, with nearly half of hosts saying they expect their guests to contribute food and drinks to the meal. nia are you yay or nay on potluck thanksgiving? >> i am a yay on getting your thanksgiving completely catered or going out to eat. i do not cook no one i know in my family cooks we go out to eat. we're going to go out to eat on thursday with my in-laws, my wife and my my daughter and my daughter's godmother and we're not going to have any dishes to clean. and that's my preference for thanksgiving kristen, i know you're a cook will you be asking guests to bring their own stuffing to thanksgiving dinner? >> so we cook extensively for thanksgiving it's one of my favorite holidays, and i am actually in favor of people bringing stuff over. it's not an expectation, but i like seeing someone else's interesting twist on how to do green beans or mashed potatoes i, i think it's neat. so i'm in favor of having guests

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the way in addition to strong disagreements about serious issues, we've had some some questionable eyewear choices. >> hi chris, what's up kara, i'm going to start with you and be gentle. >> i am wearing the bracelet that you gave me. >> you know what olivia rodrigo's music is? way, way ballad of a homeschool girl. >> it's a wonderful. it keeps you cool. it kind of looks hip. >> here we go. we got a pop star. oh it feels right. there you go. and what are you wearing for halloween? >> i think i'm going to go as somebody who i was very scared to meet. the first time. and lulu has chosen to join me as well. we're going to make kara swisher wait a minute. >> the most popular halloween costume. >> you know what's three. kara swisher. it's time for a taste test, everybody. >> you're going to make okay, let's do this no. cheers.

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